Hard Crackers is pleased to publish this recent message from Abahlali baseMjondolo, the Shack Dwellers Movement in South Africa. The message was released on the anniversary of the Soweto Revolt in 1976. We thought it would be helpful to readers if we said a little about the group. The Movement is a grass roots organization […]
“Preserving Our Capacity to Act:” An Interview with Kristian Williams
Hard Crackers: If I understand correctly the argument you’ve made about the efficacy of riots, it’s that they impose, far more effectively than legal limits, that communities can place new limits on police brutality. That seems quite evident in what’s happening now at the official political/media level. They can’t seem to move fast enough to […]
In the Streets of Philadelphia
A lot can happen in a week. On Saturday, May 30, a beautiful sunny afternoon, we joined thousands of others at the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum to protest the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police. This was the first major protest of Floyd’s death in Philadelphia, the poorest big city in […]
“Who the Hell is They?” On Two of the Sam Peckinpah Western Films
This is a film commentary (two films, in fact). What follows might be perceived as a distraction, but I don’t think so. I have been watching the now considered old Sam Peckinpah westerns in between copious news viewing and reading about the protests. I fortunately have a box set of them, a condition set by […]
“I don’t think Tyson’s gives two shits about their workers.”
It was the workers and their kids who shut down Tyson’s Waterloo, Iowa meatpacking plant on April 22, 2020. Not the governor of Iowa, Kim Reynolds, who seemed to show more concern for the hogs who weren’t being slaughtered than for the thousands of workers who were being daily exposed to COVID-19 by showing up […]
Doing Time in Trousdale is a Death Sentence! Tennesseans Speak Out
Trousdale Turner Correctional Facility is leading the nation in the number of positive COVID-19 cases, an estimated total of 1,393. Trousdale is a private prison for men in Hartsville, Tennessee, about an hour drive from Nashville. The prison opened in 2016 on the site of a nuclear power plant and it holds about 2,500 men. […]